Lot 228
Four 'Dome of the Rock' pottery Tiles Jersualem, mid-16th Century(4)
10 April 2008, 14:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,560 inc. premium
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Jersualem, mid-16th Century
Jersualem, mid-16th Century
each of square form, decorated in cobalt-blue on a white ground with a central split-leaf palmette and half-lotus flowers to each side, framed
18 x 18.5 cm.(4)
18 x 18.5 cm.(4)
Footnotes
Tiles of this type were made for the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and were part of the refurbishment of the mosque in the mid 16th Century ordered by Suleyman the Magnificent. For other tiles of this type, see Venetia Porter, Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, p. 104, fig. 92.